John Sloss

Career

John Sloss was born to Richard and Marjory Sloss of Rochester, he spent his childhood in Michigan. He got a law degree from the University of Michigan and got a job at a big Wall Street company. Later, he became a partner at a boutique entertainment firm. After an accidental meeting with filmmaker John Sayles, he became his lawyer and producing partner. This partnership brought Sloss to establish his own practice, in 1993 he opened an office in New York. In the 1990s and 2000s, Sloss did legal work for Richard Linklater, Kevin Smith, Whit Stillman, Todd Haynes, Jared Hess, Morgan Spurlock, John Sayles, Victor Nunez, and many others.{{cite web | access-date =2024-02-01}}{{cite web | access-date =2024-02-01}} He became famous for brokering deals for modestly budgeted movies which often became critical and commercial hits. Already in 1998, at Sundance, Sloss negotiated the festival’s biggest sale: Next Stop Wonderland by Brad Anderson, which Miramax acquired for almost $6 million. His other sales included Napoleon Dynamite, Super Size Me, Little Miss Sunshine, Precious, The Kids Are All Right, and many more.{{cite web | access-date =2024-01-31}}{{cite web | access-date =2024-02-01}}

In 2000, Sloss co-founded InDigEnt, a digital production company.{{cite web | access-date =2024-02-01}} In 2001, Sloss founded Cinetic Media, a New York based film finance, distribution and sales label.{{cite web | access-date =2024-02-01}} In 2016, Cinetic opened a management division in Los Angeles.{{cite web | access-date =2024-02-01}}

Among his other businesses are Filmbuff, a digital distribution company founded in 2009,{{cite web | access-date =2024-02-02}} the Producers Distribution Agency,{{cite web | access-date =2024-02-02}} which released the films Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop,{{cite web | access-date =2024-02-02}} Senna, The Way,{{cite web | access-date =2024-02-02}} and Brooklyn Castle.{{cite web | access-date =2024-02-02}}

He is a member of the Board of Directors of Film at Lincoln Center and serves on the Finance Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.{{cite web | access-date =2024-02-01}}{{cite web | access-date =2024-02-01}} Sloss has also served as an adjunct professor in the Graduate film program at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.{{cite web | access-date =2024-02-02}}

As of 2023, Sloss is referred to as indie filmdom’s foremost deal-maker. Through his companies, he has facilitated the sale or financing of over 300 indie films.{{cite web | access-date =2024-02-01}}{{cite web | access-date =2024-02-01}}{{cite web | access-date =2024-02-01}}

Family

In 2002, Sloss married Kathryn Tucker, an actress and producer for SenArt Films.{{cite web | access-date =2024-02-01}}

John Sloss and fashion curator and historian Bronwyn Cosgrave were married in New York on November 6, 2020.

References

References

1. https://variety.com/feature/hollywood-weddings-births-1234843813/